Beethoven's Symphonies and J.S. Dwight

Beethoven's Symphonies and J.S. Dwight

Author: Ora Frishberg Saloman

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781555532161

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John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893), the first American critic of art music and the founder of Dwight's Journal of Music, set a new standard for musical criticism in the 1840s by fostering the American reception of Ludwig van Beethoven's then unfamiliar symphonies. Drawing upon extraordinary and painstaking research, Ora Frishberg Saloman details the progressive and influential musical vision of the young Dwight, offering a dramatic and long overdue corrective to the conservative image of the critic that has prevailed for most of this century.